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| 1858 | 1 |
| 1859 | 1 |
| 1861 | 4 |
| 1862 | 2 |
| 1863 | 2 |
| 1864 | 3 |
| 1865 | 1 |
| 1871 | 1 |
| 1872 | 6 |
| 1876 | 73 |
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| 1888 | 28 |
| 1889 | 89 |
| 1890 | 21 |
| 1891 | 85 |
| 1892 | 123 |
| 1893 | 90 |
| 1894 | 93 |
| 1895 | 133 |
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| 1899 | 23 |
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| 1924 | 5 |
| 1925 | 1 |
3 stories matching built
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- The Milk Shed Built Over the Sewage
A Seattle weekly prints a photograph of the city's largest dairy depot — a ramshackle shed on pilings over the tide flats — and dares the health inspectors to explain why nothing is being done.
- Five Years of Waiting: The Silver Rush That Never Was
Spokane’s mining elite face a bureaucratic delay that threatens to stall fortunes built on the promise of the Spokane Indian Reservation's mineral wealth.
- The 50-Year Marriage That Defied Poverty: A Spokane Woman’s Quest for Work
When a rural Washington couple faced ruin from debt and injury, the wife took a train to Spokane with nothing but her satchel and a fierce determination to earn her keep.